Maybe it has not been able to become friends of the people but it surely has left the criminals on the run irrespective of their political colour. Now there is hardly any goon who can say that it is my area and I can do anything and everything here. Also getting a quick bail is a matter of fear than relief. The RAB surely has the support and sympathy of common people. Unfortunately, some foreign media, especially the BBC Bangla service has launched a smear campaign against it. Some other organisations are also giving their 'ethical and humanitarian' opinions bashing the RAB. Of course, it is all very easy to enjoy all the privileges of a developed country and exercise some gift of gab preaching the native countrymen (who are not so lucky like them) to be not so callous to support deaths without trial which tantamount to jungle rule. I would like to invite those people to come to this country, live for only six months and make an assessment of their divine opinions.

Let me come back to the role of BBC Bangla. In different programmes it has made an attempt to picture the RAB as a demonic force which catches people indiscriminately and kills them in crossfire. During the opposition programme of no confidence human wall, it tried to distort the story of employing RAB personnel. It tried to give the impression that they were there to suppress the opposition. But in all the skirmishes that took place during the event, the local BNP goons and police were there, not the RAB. The RAB is doing something we the common people have nothing to lose from.

The criminals are the ones who should be concerned about the activities of the RAB, and maybe their patrons too have reason to be worried. We hear stories that these criminals have links with 'gentlemen' of society. It is only natural some of the gentlemen will take measures and manipulate every possible organisation to blur the image of the RAB.